WOMAN | MEDICINE | ARTISANS
This retreat is a sacred space for women seeking to reconnect with their deepest essence. Whether you're on a journey of womb healing, exploring your sacred cyclical nature, honoring ancestral memories, or simply longing to remember your innate connection with the Earth, here you will find refuge. We honor all feminine experiences—joy, transformation, grief, and renewal—for every womb is a territory of power, and every woman carries ancestral wisdom.
The presence of Judy Jacanamjejoy, a Kamëntsá medicine woman holds the heart of this retreat: through her songs, prayers, and sacred guidance, she opens portals of deep healing—reminding us that our womb is sacred territory. Her medicine, woven with plants, memories, and living ancestral wisdom, invites us to reconnect with the Earth, our roots, and the creative power within. Through her cosmovision, we awaken ancient memories that bring us back to the body, to sisterhood, and to the sacred mystery of the feminine.
A letter to you
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Dear Woman,
I invite you to share a space of natural connection, arising from the beautiful feeling in our wombs and hearts. This is an opportunity to truly listen to ourselves, to embrace the present with love, and to consciously walk together on the path of healing our spirits. We will honor the sacred company of women, remember and call forth the teachings of our ancestors, and cherish the heartbeat and conscious breath of life as the infinite gift from the universe that it is.
Judy Jacanamejoy Chicunque
Medicine Woman, Kamëntsá Indigenous Community, Colombia
I invite you to join us on this journey, to weave together a space of love and care among us. I wish that during this gathering, we may reconnect with the greatness of our spirits, feel held, mothered, and liberated, and thus receive clarity to continue walking our paths. I long for your breath to hold us, to welcome the strength and wisdom carried within each of your words and experiences. I desire for the infinite love dwelling in your heart to bloom, for you to feel deeply heard, held, accompanied, cared for, and embraced. And may you, through rest, deep listening, silence, the movement of your body, the presence of other women, and sacred plants, find shelter for your heart
Maria Alejandra Chaves Narvaez
Co- Founder, Latido
About this Retreat
Healing is a return to our essence—a journey of recognizing the pain we carry and gently clearing what creates imbalance in our body and spirit. It is a path of remembering who we are and restoring harmony within and around us.
Through sacred rituals with plants, oils, baths, and vaginal steams, we access deep memories and invite the wisdom of each medicine to guide us back to balance. Offerings to the Earth and to our own bodies as sacred territory help us release, express gratitude, and ask for clarity and protection.
We gather around the fire to share stories, sow words in the heart, and hold each other in empathy and sisterhood. Movement becomes prayer—awakening the spirit within the body, and clearing what no longer serves.
With the loving presence of Judy Jacanamejoy, Kamëntsá medicine woman and guardian of womb wisdom, we are held in a space of trust and care. She listens deeply—to your breath, your body’s energy, your emotions—and with sacred plants, songs, and healing hands, she helps you dissolve burdens, mend energetic threads, and rekindle your inner fire. Under her guidance, healing becomes a return to harmony with the elements and with the life force that flows through us all.
Sacred Portals of Transformation
Let us feel again the pulse of our wombs, where we hold and care for the memories of our foremothers, the seeds we gestate, and our capacity to create and weave new paths.
Opening Circle and Seed Planting in the Territory
We begin by opening our hearts in sisterhood, giving thanks to Mother Earth for holding us in her embrace. Guided by the Kamëntsá cosmovision—where the womb is seen as the heart of a woman and the Earth as a living body—we offer seeds to the land as symbols of memory, gratitude, and commitment. In this act, we honor the deep bond between our bodies and the territory, remembering that we are part of the same living web. As we release burdens and weave our intentions, we root ourselves in the Earth’s womb, renewing the sacred covenant that unites us with life.
Women in Earth Time:
Weaving Ancestral Memories
from the Womb
We will explore our feminine essence as a sacred bridge to the Earth and the ancestral memories held within. In the Kamëntsá cosmovision, the womb—like the land—stores memory. Through deep meditation, we reconnect with the stories of our mothers and grandmothers, honoring their legacy and healing what has been silenced. Like the Earth, women nourish from the root, harvest with patience, and weave support through sisterhood. In this space of love, forgiveness, and remembrance, the heart softens, and the spirit begins to remember its purpose.
Somatic Ground Work:
Embodied Listening, Integration + Rest through Movement
A practice of cellular remembering and homecoming to the body and to our shared earth mother. This practice invites us to gently return to our sensing, feeling body—as a portal to healing, love, wisdom, and the sacredness always present. Movement and presence become tonic medicine, a soothing balm, a form of listening and reverence—an embodied act of self-care.
Through trauma-informed, fascia-oriented practices, you’ll discover how movement can restore energy, support nervous system regulation, and create inner stability and ease. Gentle techniques such as yielding, rhythmic rocking, ground touch, somatic unwinding, neuro-lymphatic drainage, voicing, and sighing help open pathways for energy to flow, support tissue vitality, and invite both emotional steadiness and release.
You will be guided into active embodied rest—learning how to wind down, develop a deeper relationship with gravity and support, and find the sweet balance between effort and ease. These practices offer gentle somatic repatterning that creates space for both immediate relief and sustained revitalization. They also serve as a gentle bridge , helping the body to integrate and move through whatever may arise in ceremony.
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The Womb as Sacred Territory: Remembering the Body as Earth
Our body is our first sacred territory—a living map where the stories of Mother Earth and our own intertwine. In this space, we will explore how the womb, as the center of feminine power and creation, holds emotions, ancestral wisdom, and the potential to bloom like fertile soil.
Through ancestral practices—such as the tsombiach (a traditional womb belt used to wrap and protect), womb massage to release tension and awaken energy, and a vaginal steam circle guided by plant spirits—we will honor and restore this sacred center.
Healing from the Root: Ancestral Reconnection Sessions with Judy
Our journey begins even before we gather in person—with a virtual circle to set intentions, attune to each woman’s energy, and prepare the inner soil for what’s
to come.
You will have the opportunity to have a private session with Judy. With tenderness and deep wisdom, she listens to your story—your words, your dreams, the energy of your body, and your ancestral ties to the Earth. Through sacred plants, crystals, and her healing hands, she lovingly massages and repositions the womb, opening a dialogue with plant spirits to dissolve heaviness and restore clarity. Through ritual, prayer, and song, you walk together toward integration, reawakening your center of strength, desire, and creative power.
Earth Offering:
A Communal Act of Love
In the spirit of the Kamëntsá Minga — an ancestral practice of collective work and reciprocity — we will come together as women to offer our hands to the Earth. Through shared labor on the land, we will honor the sacred relationship between our bodies and the body of Mother Earth. This will be a time to root ourselves in presence, gratitude, and service — giving back to the same Earth that holds our prayers, tears, seeds, and dreams.
Weaving Wisdom Around the Fire: Ancestral Cleansing, Moon Cycles, and Word Circle
Around the warmth of the fire, we will gather in a circle of word—planting our voices, sharing our stories, and weaving ancestral wisdom into the heart. Guided by Judy’s presence and sacred songs, we will receive a group cleansing with medicinal plants—an ancient practice to harmonize and protect both body and spirit.
Together, we will reflect on the moon’s cycles and their deep connection to our own rhythms as women. This circle is a space of sisterhood, reciprocity, and remembrance—nourished by the Earth’s vitality and the sacred fire that calls us home.
My Life Project: Recognizing My Spirit’s Strength and Rediscovering My Purpose
We will hold a reflective gathering to express through drawing, song, or poetry the lessons and feelings that shape our life project. We will draw our wombs and place within them each of our dreams, focusing particularly on those that connect body, mind and spirit. Through this process, we will recognize, honor, and set intentions for our true purpose or mission on Earth - one that embraces health and wellbeing, peace, balance, and deep connection with nature, remembering we come from the Earth and to her we shall return. Each woman's artistic creation will be placed in a visible space at home, serving as a reminder of her journey and commitment to her heart and spirit.
Closing Ceremony:
A Prayer to the Waters
This final gathering brings us together around the sacred element of Water, honoring the deep connection we share with it, from the womb where life begins to the inner waters that hold our emotions, dreams, and memory. Each woman is invited to speak from the heart in a collective act of gratitude for life, for the healing received, and for the waters that have carried us through this journey.
Guided by ancestral tradition, we will share a rapé ceremony, a sacred blend of tobacco and plants that centers the mind and opens space for deep connection. Through prayer, song, and silence, we honor the elements and release what no longer serves. Judy will offer a final cleansing to bless and seal the path ahead.
We leave with lighter hearts, strengthened wombs, and the quiet knowing that the seeds planted here will continue to grow with every step we take.
Samara works draws from specialized somatic bodywork techniques and from the experiential wisdom of navigating chronic illness, fatigue, and developmental trauma. She guides sessions intuitively, weaving training, philosophy, and lived experience. Her method is rooted in embodied listening and somatic inquiry—observing body-based feedback and how we are being in the doing. These practices restore tissue health, support nervous system capacity, and retrain the ability to unwind and rest. They offer gentle movement patterns that relieve overload and burnout, open awareness to the solidity of the earth, build resilience, and support a safe, gradual return to feeling. She teaches movement as a way to stay rooted in the body as home—and as a gentle path toward shifting limiting beliefs and patterns held within it.
She uses language—the primary tool of her guidance—in a way that is poetic and non-hierarchical, inviting expansion rather than limitation. Her words encourage each person to listen inwardly, to honour the body’s yes, no, or maybe, and to inhabit their centre with dignity. In this way, language becomes a bridge into embodiment—a tender act of re-parenting with compassion, and a practice of cultivating deeper connection with self, community, and Earth. For Samara, somatics is personal and relational, and also quietly political: a path of restoring wholeness in both body and world.
Her approach continues to evolve through her studies, her own healing journey, and through trusting what emerges in the field. Scientific, co-creative, and relational, her work is informed by a background in performing arts, professional yoga therapy in the Krishnamacharya lineage , somatic movement education + somatic groundwork and aquatic bodywork. She brings a wide range of tools to support both therapeutic healing and movement training.
She values both group and 1:1 spaces. Group practice offers the chance to collectively feel into ourselves, unmask, rest, and move while staying connected to community. 1:1 sessions invite a personalized, moment-to-moment co-creation of therapeutic space, where students may feel more resourced, spacious, and gently reconnected to their inner rhythms—not by pushing, but by softening.
Her intention is to hold a slow, stable, and embracing container—a relational space that supports us in sensing our naturalness and coming into right relationship with the body, the self, others, and the living earth. She considers herself a fellow practitioner, continually learning how to be human, how to care for her own body and spirit, and how to walk alongside her community.
"Our bodies know that they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.” ~ John O’Donohue
Aarti is a pelvic steaming facilitator, women’s embodiment coach, expressive arts therapy practitioner and founder of Daughters of Gaia, an apothecary nestled in a quiet Goan village.. Her work flows at the confluence of embodiment work, oracular wisdom and ritual, creating spaces where women can remember their innate connection to the earth and their own cyclical rhythms. Through herbal teas, sensual oil infusions, pelvic steaming blends, and ceremony, she works with the subtle intelligence of plants as companions for balance, release, and renewal.
Her work arises from years of listening—listening to plants, to women’s stories, and to the body itself. She believes that healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about returning to the wholeness that has always been present. With reverence for both traditional herbal knowledge and her own lived experience, she creates offerings that are as much earthy as they are cosmic.
At the retreat, she will guide a pelvic steaming ritual—an ancient practice originates across cultures as a way to soften, cleanse, and restore the womb. In this practice, herbs and warm steam become a gentle medicine that works on both the physical and energetic body. More than technique, it is a remembering: of the womb as a center of power, creativity, and alchemy.
Her sessions invite you to slow down, to enter into deep relationship with your own body, and to allow the plants to whisper their medicine into the places that need it most. For her, this is not simply wellness—it is a homecoming, a reconnection with the earth that lives within and beneath us all.
About Anisha Aiyappa
Weaving Together
About Judy Jacanamejoy
About Maria Alejandra Chaves
Descendant of a lineage of wisdom keepers and healers from the Kamëntsá community in Colombia's Putumayo region, Judy Jacanamejoy is a medicine woman whose life embodies the fusion of ancestral tradition and contemporary commitment. From childhood, she grew immersed in ceremonial chants, the fragrance of sacred plants, and the profound teachings of her elders, becoming a guardian of millennia-old knowledge she now shares with the world. As an anthropologist, artist, poet, and composer, she weaves multiple languages to express her people's living memory: her songs are prayers, her poems spiritual maps, and her ceremonies gateways to holistic healing.
A dedicated leader, Judy devotes her life to defending both physical and spiritual territory, understanding that protecting Mother Earth is intrinsically connected to honoring the womb as the first sacred space. She accompanies community processes with special focus on empowering women and youth, teaching that traditional medicine is both political and spiritual action. Rooted in Kamëntsá cosmovision, her work invites a return to origin: "Healing the womb means healing our relationship with Tbatsanamamá (Mother Earth)," she affirms, reminding us that every medicinal plant houses a master spirit, and every woman carries the power to transform wounds into roots of renewal.
Even though time, privilege & her own spirit have allowed her to wander through many worlds, projects and cultures, Anisha always returns to the same - the communities that surround the Earth. She is happiest when working in her apothecary or garden, surrounded by a tribe of animals and soul siblings.
Raised between South India and the UK, Anisha finds her day to day as a practising Holistic veterinary doctor, artist and eternal student to plants and creatures. She has exchanged these skills and learned a lot with communities in England, Asia, India and Latin America.
Whilst living in rural Oaxaca Mexico, as well as establishing her own practice and cooperative projects with indigenous women, she had the incredible experience of working as a translator for a "Medicina Tradicional Oaxaqueña", where she engaged with temazcales, ceremonies & several amazing Curanderas, some of whom she continued to study with for some years afterward.
Anisha feels blessed and grateful to be asked to assist in this unique and special retreat: "This kind of space makes us remember the true Spirit of Woman. What a gift to come together, heal with wonderful & authentic practitioners, share in loving connection and remember how to rest! I am so excited to meet and connect with you all"
María Alejandra, co-founder of LATIDO, was born in Colombia and has spent years weaving pathways to connect the world with the ancestral wisdom of its indigenous peoples. When she arrived in Colombia's Sibundoy Valley, her spirit resonated deeply with this land. Through her encounter with the Kamëntsá people, she found profound inspiration to amplify the voices and teachings of this community that guards the great womb of Mother Earth.
Mother to 4-year-old twins Alma and Violeta, María Alejandra experienced a birth journey that led her to seek healing in her roots. In early 2022, she received a postpartum closing ceremony guided by a Kamëntsá midwife, using sacred plants and ancestral practices to reconnect with her womb and release pregnancy/birth trauma. This ritual crystallized her purpose: creating spaces where women restore their wombs' vital energy through self-care, indigenous practices, and respectful dialogue with Earth and body. Today, LATIDO bridges Kamëntsá knowledge and collective healing, honoring the womb as life's first sacred territory.
About Aarti Anand Kuber
Care for the maternal womb, for within it dwell our heart, our thoughts, our emotions, and the very spark of life. My grandparents taught me that true evolution is a return to the origins of the Earth." — Judy Jacanamejoy
About Samara
About Rosina Alessi
Rosina, born in Argentina, is a health coach and plant-based chef. She has worked cooking for private clients, designing menus for restaurants, teaching cooking classes, and leading coaching programs—always with the intention of helping people reconnect with food in a healthy and enjoyable way. Much of this work took place in the United States, where she lived for five years.
In 2019, she moved to India with her husband. The encounter with a new culture, together with the pause brought by the pandemic, gave her the opportunity to slow down and prepare for motherhood. In 2021, her son was born, and Rosina chose to dedicate herself fully to the first years of his life. Conscious parenting has become her most spiritual and transformative journey.
Today, she is part of a micro-school project focused on learning in nature, teamwork, and offering children tools to help them navigate their emotions.
At this retreat, Rosina will be serving as a translator, building bridges between languages and cultures.
“I am grateful to join this retreat, to witness and support the journey of women who are coming together to heal and transform.”
About Rosina
The Kamëntsá are an ancestral indigenous community inhabiting the Sibundoy Valley in Putumayo, Colombia - a territory where the Andes and Amazon intertwine. Their cosmovision centers on the sacred relationship with Tbatsanamamá (Mother Earth), whom they honor as the source of life and teacher of medicinal plants. For them, every herb, fruit, stone, and element is an allied spirit that teaches how to heal the body, balance emotions, and dialogue with ancestors.
Their philosophy of "beautiful thinking" (pensar bonito) guides every action toward harmony: living in reciprocity with nature, weaving community with respect, and protecting the territory as a collective womb. The Kamëntsá remind us that caring for the earth, body and spirit are not separate acts, but one unified ritual of gratitude for existence.
About the Kamëntsá Indigenous Community: Guardians of Mother Earth's Wisdom
The Land
The Food
Accommodation
Jamboree Creek is a sanctuary envisioned by Priyanka Sharma, an eco-boutique retreat rooted in the principles of permaculture and harmony with the earth. Nestled along a gentle creek and embraced by lush tropical greenery, its pinewood cottages, mud-and-hay yoga barn, and open-air showers invite guests into an intimate dance with nature. Just five minutes away from a secluded stretch of beach, Jamboree holds space for rest, renewal, and reconnection.
Here, the land itself becomes a teacher—gardens bloom with mangoes and papayas, basil and lemongrass, carrying the fragrance of abundance and resilience. Water and waste are recycled to nourish the soil, and each corner reflects a vision of living lightly and respectfully upon the earth. Guided by Priyanka’s dream, Jamboree is more than a place to stay; it is a living, breathing offering of beauty, simplicity, and belonging.
At Jamboree Creek, food is rooted in ancient traditions. Each meal embodies simplicity, purity, and vitality. Their skilled home cook serves nourishing vegan thalis alongside herbal teas freshly picked from the farm. This cuisine not only delights the palate but also nurtures the soul, supporting balance, health, and well-being.
Their cuisine offers a beautiful balance of nutrition and spirituality. It encourages mindful eating, fostering, a deeper connection with oneself and the environment. Every dish here is made with love and attention and becomes a healing experience that elevates the soul.
Our home for the weekend is an eco-boutique resort set along a tranquil creek that flows from Ashwem to Mandrem, with a serene private beach just five minutes away.
You’ll stay in your own cozy cottage with a private bathroom, and enjoy the charm of an open-air shower—perfect for basking in the sun or gazing at the moon.
This will be an intimate gathering of a maximum 10 women, allowing each participant to be truly seen, heard, and held. This small circle opens sacred space for one-on-one connection with Judy Jacanamejoy, a medicine woman from the Indigenous Kamëntsá people, who will accompany each woman through individual healing processes with her words, her prayers, and her ancestral medicine.
Intimate Group
Retreat Offering:
Includes:
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Private healing session with Judy Jacanamejoy, Indigenous Kamëntsá Medicine Woman
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A virtual opening circle to harmonize our group energy and begin setting our intentions prior to the retreat
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All ceremonies and healing sessions described in the retreat program
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Womb steaming circle
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Somatic Ground Work Session every day.
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2 nights accommodation
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3 soul-nourishing vegetarian meals per day (for non residents lunch and dinner are included).
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Spanish-English-Spanish simultaneous translation throughout the retreat
Excludes:
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Transportation to and from Nort Goa (India)
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Travel Insurance
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Visa
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Shared Non AC Room: INR 49,000
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Private Non AC Room: INR 54,000
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Shared AC Room: INR 51,000
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Private AC Room: INR 56,000
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Non Residents: INR 46,700
*Prices are per participant
NOTES:
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Early Bird Discount: INR 3,000 off for bookings made on or before October 12, 2025.
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Shared Non-AC Room: Large king-size bed — ideal for friends or family.
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Shared AC Room: Twin beds.
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A non-refundable deposit of INR 14,000 is required to secure your place.
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Your spot will only be confirmed once the deposit has been received.
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The balance must be paid in full by 10 November 2025.
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If booking after 10 November 2025, full payment is required at the time of registration.
Retreat Price
Booking & Deposit
Due to the intimate nature of this retreat, the logistics and the long-distance travel of our Indigenous Medicine Woman from South America, we kindly ask you to honor your commitment with mindfulness. The following terms apply:
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Deposit (INR 14,000): Non-refundable under all circumstances.
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Cancellations before 25 October 2025: Refund of any amount paid beyond the deposit.
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Cancellations on or after 25 October 2025: No refund will be issued. However, your booking may be transferred to another woman you nominate and who meets the intention of this retreat, subject to approval by the organizers.
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If the retreat is canceled by the organizers due to unforeseen circumstances, all payments, including the deposit, will be fully refunded. However, we are not responsible for other expenses such as airfare or travel insurance.
Cancellation Policy
Payment Methods
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Bank Transfer (India) – details will be provided upon request.
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International Transfers – any bank or currency exchange fees must be covered by the participant.
We strongly recommend securing your place early. This ensures your participation and allows us to make the necessary ceremonial and logistical preparations in advance.
Retreat Offering:
Walking, Learning, and Weaving.
My path has led me through many mountains—literal, emotional, spiritual, and physical—teaching me I am and always will be a lifelong learner and walker. Life is woven step by step; with every challenge or knot along the way, we examine it, untangle it, resolve it, and continue weaving. This journey has brought me immense joys and blessings, beautiful moments of happiness, and humans I love deeply. Equally, it has carried profound sorrows and pains that still teach me—wounds I must keep releasing, forgiving, and liberating, ones that ask for air, deep breaths, and trust in my process. Meeting each of you at this time is an honor. Walking beside you, learning from and respectfully listening to your experiences is healing. Having the opportunity to weave with you—whether for days, years, or a lifetime—is a gift Mother Earth gives me. We’ve created this retreat with boundless love, gestated it from our wombs, and offered it to Mother Earth with the intention that this gathering becomes a beautiful walk—one rooted in love, deep listening, reflection, forgiveness, and warm embrace.
—María Alejandra Chaves N
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